The Impact of Social Media Platforms on Language Learning: A Case Study of English Language Majoring Students at Kuwait University

Social media platforms have become essential in every person's phone.These platforms serve to provide us with the latest news while entertaining us and teaching us new information we were unaware of.However, these platforms come at a great cost; they are affecting languages worldwide.In this paper, we examined this phenomenon in the English language among English-major students from both the College of Education and the College of Arts.The data was collected from 42 participants, from both male and female students.The data was collected via a survey that was designed online.It included questions such as how much time they spend on social media, whether media affects language, and whether the effect is beneficial.The results showed that all participants agreed on the existence of an impact that affects languages.Furthermore, the participants believed that their vocabulary was heavily affected by social media.Our results also showed that YouTube was the most influential platform that had the highest impact on the participants' vocabulary.